{"id":433,"date":"2014-11-24T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-11-24T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:46:58","slug":"do-i-need-an-a-in-organic-chemistry-to-get-into-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/do-i-need-an-a-in-organic-chemistry-to-get-into-medical-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need an \u201cA\u201d in Organic Chemistry to get into Medical School?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common question from undergraduates seeking to satisfy requirements of medical school applications.\u00a0 First, let\u2019s start with some stats on getting into medical school.\u00a0 The American Association of Medical Colleges reported that total students enrolled in medical school (over 4 classes of students) has risen from 77,353 in 2009 to 83,472 in 2013.\u00a0 That\u2019s good news, as this indicates that enrollment has risen by more than 7000 students, or roughly 1700 more slots for incoming classes.\u00a0 This means that the chance of entering medical school is higher than it has ever been!\u00a0 However in 2013, of the 20,055 students who matriculated into a medical school, 48,014 applicants applied with an average of 14 applications per applicant, for a grand total of 690,281 applications submitted and reviewed.\u00a0 That translates to roughly a 40% acceptance rate.\u00a0 This concludes getting into medical school is fiercely competitive which is why many student obsess about getting the best grade possible.<\/p>\n<p>In an article from U.S. World News, Johns Hopkins premed advising office suggests that an applicant with a GPA of 3.5 and a MCAT of 30-31 stands a \u201cgood chance\u201d of getting accepted, but factors such as personal statements, experience, community service, spoken languages and applicant interview also majorly impact your chances.\u00a0 No doubt you must demonstrate a mastery of all of the subjects required for medical school applications, including organic chemistry, but clearly grades are not the only metric of acceptance.\u00a0 Here are a couple of suggestions for maximizing your organic chemistry studying to get the edge on the competition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t get caught up in counting points<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Students often spend considerable time and energy complaining to teachers and graders over 1 or 2 points here and there.\u00a0 This is penny-wise and dollar-foolish. A few points will have little to no impact on your grade.\u00a0 The most important use of your time studying are the big pictures.\u00a0 Understand where minor points were taken off and make efforts to avoid these simple mistakes in the future.\u00a0 Keep calm and move on!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practice, practice, practice!<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Professors have only an hour or two at most to examine your knowledge of weeks of material.\u00a0 That means they have to ask you the major concepts in order to satisfy the curriculum and there are only so many types of questions they can ask.\u00a0 Seeing as many practice problems as possible will give you a very good understanding of the big picture and ensure success on most of the test.\u00a0 Sometimes, professors will throw in a \u201creally hard\u201d example.\u00a0 These questions are meant to discriminate between the \u201cA\u2019s\u201d and the \u201cB\u2019s.\u201d \u00a0 But, if you have practiced many problems, your chances for having seen these questions raise dramatically.\u00a0 It\u2019s a win-win to practice everything problem you can find!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get help from StudyOrgo\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Even the best organic chemistry student will struggle with a concept here and there.\u00a0 Regardless of your past success in the course, outside tutoring will always help.\u00a0 At StudyOrgo, we have developed intuitive and in-depth descriptions of most reactions in organic chemistry.\u00a0 We take each mechanism step-by-step with many examples to show you how reactions proceed and point out how they can vary.\u00a0 With hard work and assistance from StudyOrgo, you are sure to get the A you deserve and give you the extra edge when preparing for medical school!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common question from undergraduates seeking to satisfy requirements of medical school applications.\u00a0 First, let\u2019s start with some stats on getting into medical school.\u00a0 The American Association of Medical Colleges reported that total students enrolled in medical school (over 4 classes of students) has risen from 77,353 in 2009 to 83,472 in 2013.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic-chemistry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}